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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 24, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jeff Kidder, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Robert Adams, Lake Oswego, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3952007 ; 39520062 ; 370468 ; 370233 ; 370389 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus of transmitting time critical messages over a network is provided. Data which has minimal bandwidth requirements, such as data packets utilized in applications such as twitch games, is received or generated in a network device. The data is classified as minimal bandwidth data and prioritized relative to other data for transmission before the other data. The data is then transmitted by the device to a second device on the network before the other data is transmitted.